Nepalese woman scales Mount Everest twice within days
NEPAL: A Nepalese climber was confirmed on Monday as the first woman
to scale Mount Everest twice in a single season, Guinness World Records
said, after she made the second summit within days of the first.
Chhurim Sherpa, 29, reached the 8,848-metre (29,028-feet) peak on May
12 last year before returning to base camp for a well-earned rest and
then repeating the stunning feat a mere week later.
“I am very happy for this recognition. I was determined that the
record should be held by a Nepalese woman and I'm proud to be one,” said
Sherpa, from Nepal's eastern hills.
Another Sherpa, Pasang Lhamu, died on her descent after becoming the
first Nepalese woman to reach the summit of the world's tallest mountain
in 1993. Her feat was followed by 21 Nepalese women but no female
climber in the world had ever managed two ascents in one season before
Chhurim Sherpa.
“Climbing Everest turns out to be very tough for women like me
because there are no toilets. Five of us had to share a tent,” she told
reporters at a ceremony in the capital Kathmandu to hand her the
official record certificate.
Around 3,000 people have made it to the top of Everest since Edmund
Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953.
The summit season on Everest begins in late April when a small window
between spring and the summer monsoon offers the best conditions for
making the ascent.
AFP
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